Open Data Deep Dive: Using R to View Crime Data

March 8, 2017

February 7, 2018 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

1400 University Ave, Charlottesville

We’re diving into crime data!  We’ll discuss some of the peculiarities of the data and some strategies for using R to obtain, analyze, and map drug-offense data.

Free registration requested below. Join us for an evening of open data discussion and analysis.  Open to all but introductory knowledge of R and the tidyverse, is preferred if you plan to code along (see “Setup” below).  We think this will be interesting to many but this will be a programming-focused event.  We will have a walk along and fill along R script for intermediate R users that want to type along, we will be talking through the process and findings at a high level via slides included above. Hopefully, every skill level can get something valuable.

Basic agenda:
7:00pm-7:20, Welcome and local context for drug-related crimes in Charlottesville from Neal Goodloe, Criminal Justice Planner, Thomas Jefferson Area Community Criminal Justice Board 

7:20-7:25 Geocoding/bringing open data into R

7:25-7:45 Tools and plots in R

7:45-8:05 Model the data and testing analysis

8:05-8:30 Independent exploration/creation/questions

Setup:
Code demos will be run with R 3.4.1 (download here https://www.r-project.org/) in RStudio (recommended, but not required). Demos will use the following packages, available from CRAN: tidyverse, magrittr, sf, geojsonio, viridis, leaflet. The development version of ggplot2 is also required (installed from Github with library(devtools); install_github(“tidyverse/ggplot2”) ).  If you have any questions about setup contact Nate at nathancday@gmail.com. We will also be at the OpenGrounds at 6:30, if anyone needs help getting set up.

 

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